@tchambers what's somewhat alarming here is that apparently the spam is winding up on federated timelines even on instances where nobody's following the spammers. So that means that when threads accounts that nobody's following makes transphobic-but-acceptable-to-threads posts they can wind on federated timelines. Of course they can then get reported, and mods can remove them ... but still, there are so many threads accounts that it sounds like a recipe for mod burnout.
@jdp23 Can you give specific examples of this?
"what's somewhat alarming here is that apparently the spam is winding up on federated timelines even on instances where nobody's following the spammers. "
I've not seen that. I've seen lots of @ messaging spam mainly so far.